Author : Jason S. Baehr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019960407X
Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflection on intellectual virtues in epistemology.
Author : Ryan Hanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691216703
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics.
Author : Pierre Hadot
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1995-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780631180333
This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.
Author : Kristján Kristjánsson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192537555
Many people are drawn towards virtue ethics because of the central place it gives to emotions in the good life. Yet it may seem odd to evaluate emotions as virtuous or non-virtuous, for how can we be held responsible for those powerful feelings that simply engulf us? And how can education help us to manage our emotional lives? The aim of this book is to offer readers a new Aristotelian analysis and moral justification of a number of emotions that Aristotle did not mention (awe, grief, and jealousy), or relegated, at best, to the level of the semi-virtuous (shame), or made disparaging remarks about (gratitude), or rejected explicitly (pity, understood as pain at another person's deserved bad fortune). Kristján Kristjánsson argues that there are good Aristotelian reasons for understanding those emotions either as virtuous or as indirectly conducive to virtue. Virtuous Emotions begins with an overview of Aristotle's ideas on the nature of emotions and of emotional value, and concludes with an account of Aristotelian emotion education.
Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052176176X
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107165784
This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.
Author : Howard J. Curzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199693722
Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.
Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 2005 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1439126259
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
Author : Michael Raymond DePaul
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199219125
"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.
Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107180589
Focusing on the concepts of personality, character, and virtue, this work examines what it means to exist religiously for Kierkegaard.
